Cordeliers

The Cordeliers were a populist political club of the French First Republic from 1790 to 1794, led by Georges Danton. The party originated in the Cordeliers district of Paris, and club membership fees were purposely cheap, as Danton was known to be a man of the people. The party championed the working men and women of Paris, and the club was responsible for the 10 August insurrection at Tuileries Palace on 10 August 1792 and the September Massacres. The radical faction, led by Jacques Hebert and known as the "Hebertists", was criticzed by "Old Cordeliers" such as Camille Desmoulins, and the Hebertists were guillotined in December 1793. On 24 March 1794, after falling out with The Mountain, the Cordeliers were also guillotined.